Feb 23 2015

NYIT Gallery 61 is pleased to present In Perfect Alignment: Ancient Places, Contemporary Perspectives, a solo exhibition of drawings by Ahmet Gülgönen. The exhibition, on view, March 5 – April 22, 2015 is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, including an essay by NYIT Professor Brian Brace Taylor, Phd, and an introduction by Judith DiMaio, Dean of the NYIT School of Architecture and Design. The catalogue is available by contacting the gallery at (212) 261-1562 or by email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Jan 21 2015

NYIT Gallery 61 will present the exhibition, “Material Attraction,” with works by Kia Pedersen, Nancy Koenigsberg, Debra Ramsay, and Jonathan Cowan from, January 22 to February 25, 2015. Using nature as the initial concept for their works, the artist’s works include dramatic impressions of clouds, tornadoes, water, mist and sky serving as their muse.

Sep 08 2014

Art without Waste is a collection of works from International cutting-edge designers, illustrators and artists, whose approach incorporates up-cycling and sustainability as a central goal of their work.

Jun 05 2014

NYIT students and staff were given a unique opportunity to display their talent in this year’s “Summer in the City” exhibition at the university’s NYIT Gallery 61 in Manhattan. Drawing from personal and historical inspirations, the exhibit includes everything from concept drawings to designer ad campaigns, and pop-up books to pinhole photographs.

Apr 29 2014

Arezoo Moseni and Stephen Cox discussed their work with students at NYIT on April 11, 2014. Their work is currently on display at Gallery 61 in an exhibit titled Luminescent Progressions. The exhibit will run through May 7, 2014. Arezoo originally received much attention through her handmade photographs using 19th Century photography processes such as Kallitype and Vandyke. Stephen Cox a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design says his work was influenced by painters like Mark Tobey and Keith Haring.

Apr 01 2014

This exhibition marks the first duel solo show of the two artists. The work exemplifies the artists’ continued fascination with light, color, form and motion. The couple lives and creates in upper Manhattan where their urban environment has a profound influence on the work they make. The level of their productivity is impressive considering their full-time jobs, daily commutes and other life demands. It is exhilarating to see their abundant energy as they produce fresh and engaging work despite the setbacks.

Feb 19 2014

Trajectories, an exhibition of work of artists, Cora Jane Glasser and Greg Lamarche. Native New Yorkers, both artists use the urban environment as their muse, giving rise to subtle visual similarities to be found in structure and color- yet both have taken their own unique paths- “trajectories”, if you will- to arrive at very different modes of expression.

Jan 28 2014

Nov 07 2013

Call for entries for an exhibition of work by NYIT staff, students, and faculty. The Commute or On Commuting will exhibit from Jan. 30 to Feb. 27, 2014 at NYIT Gallery 61, 16 W. 61st St., 11th floor, Manhattan campus. Everyone is encouraged to participate.

Jun 26 2013

Who? The Lumen Prize Exhibition is an annual award for digitally created fine art. In it’s first year the four selected winners shared US$5000 of prizes and the jury-selected final 50 went on a global tour that visited galleries and arts venues in Cardiff, London, Riga, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

When? Call for entries is now open and closes July 31.

May 29 2013

The NYIT students of Architecture, Design and Fine Art began their projects with drawings about their ideas; be it the water flow systems in Red Hook, observing the devastation in Sandy’s wake, designing modular furniture for a “green zone”, or inventing cubist-style forms that morph into everyday objects depicted in the murals.
The architecture and design drawings are made with graphite, markers, ink, auto cad and photo shop mostly done on vellum. Complementing the drawings are conceptual and finished models, made with Lucite, illustration board and wood. What is interesting to see are the pieces of laser cut images discarded by the students which have now been salvaged and installed in the exhibition.
The Fine Arts students began their process by drawing an object of their choice to show their ability to depict observed reality. The instructor enlarged those drawings and collaged parts of them together to create one composite image. A grid was imposed on it to form rectangular segments. The students collaborated by enlarging each grid into panels which were pieced together to complete the three murals.

Apr 26 2013

NYIT Gallery 61 presents the annual M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition featuring projects by 16 student artists from the Department of Fine Arts, Thursday, May 9 to Monday, May 20 at 16 W. 61st St., 11th floor. The students will graduate in May 2013 and go to work in the fields of art and technology, graphic design, and computer animation. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Apr 03 2013

NYIT Gallery 61 presents the annual Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Friday, April 12 to Friday, May 3 at 16 W. 61st St., 11th floor. Work by 17 faculty artists who teach at NYIT's Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses will be on display.

"The essence of arts and sciences at their core is the thrill of uncertainty," said Roger Yu, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "So, come to our show and be thrilled."

Mirror of our time - The seductive images of fashion magazines are today’s reference of an idealized notion of beauty. In the magazines, faces tend to look similar, toward a glamorous self and a floating notion of sexual identity. This drove me to begin my collages by cutting the eyes and mouth, in order to cancel the signs of individuality. The disquieting compositions echo the multi layered world we are in.

The Jaali Series was inspired by my Indian residency. The work is done with gouache, pencil and bindi dots. The paint is applied with a thin brush that is used for miniature paintings in Rajasthan. Jaali is a term used for the perforated stone with an ornamented pattern that can be seen in palaces, forts and some residencies in Rajasthan. Often used as a screen, women could look outside their world without being seen.

The Belonging Series explores the concept of identity and mobility. I use phone book pages from countries I have lived in. These collages take the form of cultural references specific to the country of origin where the phone books were taken; a quilt pattern represents America, aboriginal art for Australia, mosaic for Italy, lacemaking from Switzerland. The work is about my migrating life and relationships between individuals, places and memory. www.vivianerombaldi.com

Pauline Galiana

Shredded - Collected with the patience of a forensic scientist, paper stripes emerge from my discarded documents, notes and paper artworks reinvent their own wheel of time.

Winter of Will is an offspring of my oil paintings. I collect and slice the paper rags used to clean my brushes and stitch the paper pieces into various grids.

Kitchen art is a continuing series of sticker collages that I began many years ago. They are based on products I have consumed, museums I have visited, and other labels that make their way into my life. By collecting and arranging the material, I am sensitive to the discarded details of everyday life and to the patterns of my consumption.

The Boxes are visual Haiku; small, dense arrangements of found items whose traces are too easily disregarded. Bright, refreshing and unexpected, these constructions reward the eye and spark the imagination. www.paulinegaliana.com